[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 25 March 2019
Born in 1989, Andreas Ottensamer comes from an Austro-Hungarian family of musicians and was drawn to music early, receiving his first piano lessons when he was four. At the age of ten he began studying the cello at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, then changed to the clarinet under Johann Hindlerin in 2003.
Andreas Ottensamer gained his first orchestral experience as a deputy in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic and as a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. In 2009 he interrupted his Harvard studies to become a scholar of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. He is now the principal clarinettist of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Brahms:
Intermezzo in A Major. Andante teneramente (Arr. for Clarinet and Piano by Popov)
Weber:
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73
Mendelssohn:
Songs Without Words:
No. 6 Allegretto con moto
No. 1 Andante un poco agitato
No. 4 Agitato e con fuoco
No. 3 Andante tranquillo
No. 6 Allegretto tranquillo
No. 2 Allegro leggiero
No. 4 Andante sostenuto
Brahms:
Wie Melodien zieht es mir (Transcr. for Clarinet and Piano)
Weber:
Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48, J. 204